I can remember watching the leader of the New Black Panthers before he even went to law school. He was a skinny kid then, doing warm-up speeches for Farrakhan.
I used to watch some of Farrakhan's long, racist diatribes, just to hear it for myself. He ran them on public access. He may still do that. I don't know. You hear one three hour speech from him, you've heard them all.
Anyone who doesn't repudiate him lacks any moral standing.
In the eastern NC city I used to reside in, Farrakhan's followers stood on street corners on Fridays and handed out his paper. I took one to see what it had to say. Needless to say it was very disturbing.
In my opinion all of these groups and their leaders lost their "moral standing" long ago. Even though I grew up in the south and lived there most all of my life, I have always considered myself fairly unbiased in racial matters. Always tried to judge people by the content of their character long before the famous MLK speech. More and more, I begin to question how I can remain unbiased in light of the total lack of character exhibited by the so called leaders of the black community.